24 July 2008

The Buddhist and The Christian

Posted by khuushuur under: buddhism; mongolia .

While having posted on the bizar joint listing of Christians and Shamanists in religious statistics some time ago, the last weeks have seen a frontal confrontation of some senior Buddhists with the American director of the News/Christian channel “Eagle TV”. The fire was sparked off by a letter of Norwegian Buddhist Federation President Egil Lothe to the UB Post and Mongolia Web News. User comments, another letter by Lothe and a reaction from the head of FPMT Mongolia express a vocal irritation with practices and arguments of the Eagle TV director. He himself seems “not amused” with Lothe’s arguments, reflecting in a blog post called “Responding to Dishonesty“.
But any illusion of an open discussion is smothered as Mr. Minder’s request for mutual respect is answered by a short post on the blog of the Eagle boss

….It’s a little quote from a guy in Myanmar who was helped by missionaries after a cyclone all but destroyed that country.

“Buddha did nothing while we were suffering. But your Jesus loves us.”

And that pretty much says it all.

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